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A80730	Two sermons preached at Christ-Church in the city of Dublin, before the honourable the General Convenion of Ireland. The first on Prov.11.14 at the first meeting of the said convention, March 2. 1659. The second on Jude v.19. at a publique fast appointed by the said convention, March 9. 1659. By Sem Coxe, Minister of the gospel and pastor at St. Katherines in Dublin.	Coxe, Sem.; Ireland. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6726; Thomason E1026_21; ESTC R208752	50,638	72

new thing to commit Treasons under the vizzard of holiness The Apostle long since foretold that there should be traitours heady high minded persons having a form of godliness 2. Tim. 3. 1-5 This Prophesy is eminently fulfilled in these our backsliding times By their means our holy and good profession is scandalized and the way of truth is evil spoken of by Papists and Atheists and all profane men as the Apostle speaketh 2 Pet. 2. 2. II. It is also desperate madness in them to act after this rate for the extirpation of our counsellors and their counsells For If they had accomplished their designs could they have escaped scot-free in the common overthrow Who but a man bereft of his wits will sink the vessel wherein he is imbarked or fire the house wherein he dwelleth Wherefore they are to be looked upon and dealt withal as mad man use to be being fitter for bedlam then for sober society The possessed of the Devil used to be bound in chains and fetters Mar. 5. 4. You cannot deal too warily with this generation of men Secondly If it be so That the prosperity or adversity of a people dependeth so much upon counsellors and counsels Then this also informeth us of the great worth and excellency of those honourable Persons who have ventured their all for the restitution of our Grand Council the Parliament they have done what in them is to keep these Nations from utter ruine and confusion This is true Nobility This was it that made Saul honourable in the eyes of all Israel when he stood up so manfully for the preservation and deliverance of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead 1. Sam. 11. Certainly such Worthies deserve well from us and from our posterity We should all say with Deborah in her song Judg. 5. 9. My heart is toward the Governors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people I know full well what some black mouths belch out against these Noble persons and Saviours of our countrey and against the Magistrates of this famous City But let them alone when they are come to themselves they will be wiser and consider That it was a duty to save three Nations from sinking into destruction And as thankfulness love and honor are due from us all unto them So they may expect a reward from God for this incomparable service done to the Church and Nations Yea and God will reward them If a cup of cold water given to any one in the name of a disciple shall not be unrewarded Mat. 10. 42. What then shall the reward of those be that have ventured Life Estate and all that is dear unto them to save this Republique wherein are a multitude of true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ The second Use of this Doctrine affordeth ground of praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord our God for two great mercies First If the want of counsellors doth portend the fall of a people Then what abundant cause have we all to bless the Lord that these Dominions are not totally ruined ere this day by the secluding of our counsellors and interrupting their counsels for so many years together You see that such a want of councel as we have had is usually the fall of a people and yet herein God hath been more mercifull to us than to others although we were plunged into the ditch yet we are not quite drowned We may say truly with the Psalmist Psal 118 13. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me And verse 2● This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes You must set a Selah upon this mercie and say Hitherto hath the Lord helped us The 124 Psalm and the 129 Psalm ought to be sung frequently by all the godly in these Nations in commemoration of this mercie Secondly If it be so That the flourishing estate of a people ariseth from their enjoyment of a multitude of Counsellors Then what cause have we to praise the name of the Lord that he hath at last restored unto us our Free Parliament that great Council that may save us from destruction and ruine God hath this day begun to perform unto us that gracious promise which he made to the Jews Isa 1. 26. I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning It is a wonder of mercie that the Lord hath done this great thing for us And it is a great addition of mercy to us in this Island that God hath raised up to us also so many worthy Counsellors in this poor peeled Nation and hath notwithstanding manifold obstructions which were in the way brought them together into this City to consult and advise of those things that so nearly concern us both in matters religious and civil That both these mercies I am speaking of may have the greater impression upon our hearts consider seriously these four things 1 Our own unworthiness for whom God hath appeared so eminently Well may we take up that humble expression of Jacob Gen 32. 10. We are not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servants much less of so great mercy and truth as hath appeared in these mercies that we are now speaking of 2 Look upon the depth of the misery that we were plunged into and that will illustrate the greatness of these mercies our laws were discountenanced our properties impropriated our liberties infringed yea and which is more our selves were unchurched some of our godly Ministers silenced and banished and the Gospel ready to depart from us and nothing but blackness and darkness of error countenanced and encouraged to the wounding of the hearts of all truly pious men The actings of these late times have been like the Rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram that strove against Moses and Aaron of which you may read Numb Ch. 16. They endeavoured to pull down Magistracy and Ministry and so have these done Dathan and Abiram were Gentlemen of the tribe of Reuben the eldest son of Israel Num. 26. 5. Famous in the Congregation Verse 9. They thought they had as much right to the civil Government as Moses had and therefore say they speaking in the Levellers dialect Why lift you up your selves above the congregation of the Lord in the third verse And when they were summoned by Moses they refused appear Ch. 16. v. 12. 13. We will not come up say they Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and hony to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Their quarrel against Moses was about civil power they would needs assume the supreme Magistracy Korah was a Levite and he would have none above him in the Church he would needs do the Office of a Priest aswell as Aaron as appeareth verse 10 11. His quarrel was ecclesiastical he would level the

Act. 16. 23. Ministers must preach such points as may be of most use for the present occasion Now the special work upon Fasting dayes is to humble the soul for sin God requireth that on the tenth day of the second month which was the aniversary day of humiliation to Israel they should afflict their souls Lev. 16 29. 31 and threatneth Chap. 23 29 that whatsoever soul it shall be that shall not be afflicted on that same day shall be cut off from among his people Hence it is that the word of God ought to be preached upon the Fasting day that so the people may be brought to sound repentance and humiliation for sin and so made more fervent in their supplications to God for pardon As appeareth by that direction the Prophet Jeremiah giveth to Baruch Jer. 36. 6. 7. Go thou saith he and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lords house upon the Fasting day it may be they will present their supplication before the Lord and turn every one from his evil way But how should we mourn for our sins unless we know them That which brought David to true sorrow and heart breaking for his sin was the certain knowledge he had of his own sinful condition I know or acknowledge my transgressions saith he Psal 51. 3. and my sin is ever before me And how should we know our sins so as to mourn for them unless Gods Ministers do their endeavours to discover them to us David of whom mention was made before never repented or mourned for his sins of Adultery and Murder until Nathan the Prophet came unto him and took pains with him in the discovery of them as is clear Psal 51. title you may read the whole history a Sam. Cap. 12. To this end it is that the Lord calleth upon every one of us who are his Heralds Isa 58. 1. Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins This alone is the usual way that God taketh for the discovery of sin Yet to make an exact and particular discovery of sin is a thing altogether impossible to be done by any Minister in the world For who can know his own errours Psal 19. 12. how much less the errours that other men are overtaken with Wherefore the Ministers of Christ have used to do in this case of the discovery of sin as he that draweth the Land-skip of a Country or Kingdom who because he cannot describe every bush or tree or house doth therefore take notice onely of the most eminent cities and towns and rivers therein Nathan takes notice of Davids great spots stains onely 2 Sam. 12. 9. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and hast taken his wife to be thy wife he speaketh of his great sins So the holy Prophets in their discovery of sin take notice of the foulest as of Ingratitude against God Hypocrisy Covetousness Murder Drunkenness Idolatry Lying Pride Contempt of Gods word Security in sinning and the like The greatest sins are especially to be taken notice of Upon this account that I may discharge my duty aright upon this our Fasting day I have singled out the sin of Separation as the foulest sin of this age and generation and therefore most seasonable to be spoken of that we may be humbled before the Lord our God I know indeed that it is the part of the Lords messengers to cry out against and to endeavour to bring others unto a godly sorrow for all the abominations of the Land for all that gross ignorance superstition and damnable prophanness that is rise amongst us And I doubt not but my brethren that are to beat a part in the work of this day will endeavour to acknowledge all our iniquities and transgressions before the Lord and wrestle with the Lord for the pardon of them But I must ingenuously profess that I conceive the sin of Separation to be the Achan the great abomination of these Lands upon diverse accounts of which I shall speak anon and therefore most to be laid to heart by the Lords people this day To which end I have made choice of this Text These are they who separate themselves c. And before I proceed any further I must first shew the dependance of these words upon those that go before The subject matter of this Epistle is a vehement exhortation of the Apostle Jude to all the godly in all ages That they contend earnestly for the faith which was once committed to the Saints as you see in the third Verse and That they suffer not themselves to be drawn from the faith and belief of the Gospel by those false teachers who were crept in among them unawares in the fourth Verse The arguments by which the Apostle persuadeth with these believers to beware of these seducers are of two sorts I He argueth from the punishments that the Lord hath inflicted upon those sins to which these false teachers endeavoured to seduce them which judgments he layeth down before them in three examples 1 Of the destruction of the people of Israel for their unbelief in the fifth Verse 2 Of the everlasting ruine of the reprobate Angels for their pride in the sixth Verse 3 Of the vengeance of God upon Sodom and Gomorrha for their fornication and buggery in the seventh Verse II He also argueth from the personal vices that raigned in these seducers Whence it was altogether unfit that they should be leaders of these believers and also unsafe that these believers should be followers of them The sins that these seducers were guilty of are reckoned up under thirteen heads in this Epistle two of them are comprised in this Verse viz. 1 Schisme they were such as made a rent in and separation from the Church of God that is laid down in these words These are they who separate themselves 2 Steering their course by sense and carnal reason and not by the Spirit of God in these words Sensual having not the spirit Mine intention is to speak of the first of the sins mentioned in this Verse to which these false Teachers were addicted and which did evidence them to be seducers they were such as did separate themselves from the Church and people of God Where it is to be noted how the Apostle pointeth them out as it were with the finger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if he should have said thus Behold observe and mark these men to be vile and pernicious persons for they do willingly cut themselves off from communion with the Church of God The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Estius noteth upon the Text signifieth to lead or allure beyond the bounds of the Church to break the pale thereof A term which I am not ashamed to use though it have been much flouted a● of late These are they that single